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Topic: Of Tom and Jerry and Super 8!
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted March 31, 2006 11:51 AM
I review of "Heavenly Puss" (Tom and Jerry, 1949, MGM)a great cartoon, spawned this additional topic, this one concerning negatives and film labs.
I was informed by the ever informative Kevin Faulkner, that Derann bought thier Tom and Jerry negatives from the defunct Walton super 8 film company, which would make one conclude that they are the same slightly edited negatives, but that's not what this topic is about.
I would be very curious as to the difference in print quality between the Walton releases of Tom and Jerry cartoons, and the Derann releases from the same negatives. If anyone out there has a copy of both a Walton AND Derann Tom and Jerry of the same title, I would love to hear if there is any difference in the grain, sharpness and color contrast in the prints. Especially concerning sharpness, as Derann is second to none in this category. For instance, I used to have both a Walton AND a MGM release of "Two Mousketeers", one of Tom and Jerry's best. I noted that the MGM release of the cartoon had much more lush color, much more "body" to the image. Strangely, the Walton was ever so slightly more sharp, but I chose to keep the lush color version over the slightly sharper version. It would make sense that the MGM releases would have a better gradation of color as they own the original negatives, and color does degrade ever so slightly with each generation of film print. This can also be because of the film lab as well, as I have noted that many prints coming from the English film labs have a slightly "bluish" tint to the color, where, perhaps, the existing film labs in america (at that time) did not.
So, lets hear from you folks out there.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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